AGARTALA, July 3 (TIWN): Protesting against the comments passed by Tripura PWD Minister Badal Choudhury on July 1st, about the central govt.’s deprivation for Northeast, and Assam Govt.’s lethargy to renovate NH-44, BJP State observer Sunil Deodhar said, “Tripura PWD Minister Badal Choudhury would take back his words against Modi Govt. and Assam Govt. and also for confusing public, media with wrong information’.

Addressing the press meet, Deodhar said, ‘Whereas Badal Choudhury claimed that the central Govt. has taken back the charge of National Highway from Assam PWD and given to charge to the NHIDCL, but the total work of NH-44 is still under the Assam Govt.’ ‘Badal Choudhury passed a wrong information from Civil Secretariat’, he added.

‘NHIDCL has just taken the charge of alternative highway’, he said.

‘Nitin  Gadkari on  June 28 has posted in Social Media, “I have instructed officials to work on war footing to fix NH-44 so as to improve connectivity to Tripura. I would be monitoring the progress of this Highway on a fortnightly basis. Connectivity of Tripura for National Highway 44 to correct for the war to work on the level of instruction given to the authorities. I am on the basis of this highway to monitor progress”.

Sunil Deodhar also claimed that he talked to Nitin Gadkari via phone on Sunday morning too about NH-44.

But after this declaration too Tripura PWD Minister Badal Choudhury blamed the central govt. without talking to Central Ministry of Transport.

Deodhar also said, ‘Whenever I pass the long lines of young people waiting under scorching heat, it comes in mind, corrupting is done by someone else, but the sufferer are the common men’.

‘Without proper transport-system, development can not come but the communist Govt. is plan-wise lagging the state far away from development’.

‘People will see how in the next years Rapid Development will come in Assam and this is because of the co-operation between the state and Central’, he added.

‘Whereas due to rain, the work is not progressing, but the Tripura Govt. has taken the issue as an opportunity to blame the Assam Govt. ,whereas from 10 to 12 years, Tripura’s NH-44 was left without any maintenance.

However, the state President Biplab Deb told media that when Badal Choudhury was delivering his speech on July 1^st, he lacked full knowledge or may be he was acting to be unaware of the fact.